Korea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean history and asks how key concepts and symbols were created and integrated into political programs to create an original Korean understanding of national identity, the nation-state, and nationalism. Looking at the often-ignored questions of representation, narrative, and rhetoric in the construction of public sentiment, Andre Schmid traces the genealogies of cultural assumptions and linguistic turns evident in Korea's major newspapers during the social and political upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Newspapers were the primary location for the re-imagining of the nation, enabling readers to move away from the conceptual framework inherited from a Confucian and dynastic past toward a nationalist vision that was deeply rooted in global ideologies of capitalist modernity. As producers and disseminators of knowledge about the nation, newspapers mediated perceptions of Korea's precarious place amid Chinese and Japanese colonial ambitions and were vitally important to the rise of a nationalist movement in Korea.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Monumental Story
- Civilization and the East
- Colonialism and History
- The Boundaries of the Nation
- 1. The Universalizing Winds of Civilization
- Internal Disorder, External Calamities
- Globalizing the National and Nationalizing the Global
- The Pundits of the Nation
- The Eyes and Ears of the Nation
- 2. Decentering the Middle Kingdom and Realigning the East
- Demoting China
- Authentic Culture, Pure Identities
- The Language of Nationalism
- From King to Emperor
- A National Flag
- A Lost Korean and Eastern Civilization
- Peace and Unity in a Racially Defined East
- The Disintegration of Eastern Solidarity
- 3. Engaging a Civilizing Japan
- The Authority of Japan
- A Nationalist Dialogue
- Images of the yangban
- The Dangers of Sadaejuui
- Colonial Denouement
- 4. Spirit, History, and Legitimacy
- A Spirited Nation
- From Ancient Imperial Myths to Modern Colonizing Myths
- Contentious Histories
- Japanese Colonialism on the International Stage
- 5 Narrating the Ethnic Nation
- National Etymologies
- Legitimacy as a National Narrative
- History as Genealogy
- The State of History
- From Man to God
- 6 Peninsular Boundaries
- Bordering China
- A Public Border
- The Decline of Geomancy and Mount Paektu
- 7 Beyond the Peninsula
- A Korean Manchuria
- Irredentist Voices
- The Diasporic Nation
- Turning the Nation Inside Out
- Custodians of the Nation
- Epilogue
- Language Purity
- Toward a Postcolonial History
- Northward Gaze
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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